This means Sigourney Weaver is back reprising her role as Ellen Ripley for the first time in 17 years. She’ll be joined by Tom Skerritt (Dallas), Veronic Cartwright (Lambert), Harry Dean Stanton (Brett), and Yaphet Kotto (Parker).

Anyone who pre-orders the game receives a free upgrade to the game’s ‘Nostromo Edition,” which includes two DLC missions, called ‘Crew Expendable’ and ‘Last Survivor.’

The crew from Alien: Isolation’s ‘Crew Expendable’ mission.

Crew Expendable takes place just after Brett dies in the film and has players controlling Ripley, Dallas or Parker as they try to flush the alien from the ship’s air vents. Each character is set to give the player a slightly different perspective on the mission and offer a different weapon loadout.

Last Survivor takes place during the film’s finale. Players assume the role of Ripley and are tasked with activating the ship’s self-destruct system and then reaching an escape pod before the ship explodes.

Both missions have been designed as ‘what if?’ scenarios, giving players alternate concepts for how events in the 1979 movie might have unfolded.

While most pre-order often feature some sort of action figure or DLC, Alien: Isolation’s two DLC packages are the most compelling reason to pre-order a game in quite some time. The game’s developers, Creative Assembly, are probably concerned Colonial Marines has ruined the Alien brand yet again for many gamers and want to find a compelling way to pull them back in.

According to Sega, the game’s publisher, the pre-order bonus will eventually be available to all Alien: Isolation owners:

It’s genuinely been great to see the reaction to The Crew Expendable and Last Survivor pre-order bonus content we announced yesterday and how excited you all are to re-experience those classic scenes from the original movie with our Alien. It’s been absolutely amazing for us at the Studio.

However, some of you have been asking if the two pieces of content are only available through pre-order or if we’ll be releasing them at a later date as well.

So, I can confirm today that we do plan to release both Crew Expendable and Last Survivor at a later date and we’ll have more details for you guys on that shortly.

Creative Assembly, at least as far as the game’s trailers are concerned, seem to have put a significant amount of effort into making sure the game adopts the grounded sci-fi style of the first film, so adding the original cast to the title makes perfect sense in the universe they’re creating.

Alien Isolation is set to be released on Oct 7, 2014 for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PC.